The last time the Denver Broncos were in the playoffs, Tennessee football legend Peyton Manning was leading them to a Super Bowl victory over the Carolina Panthers in what would be Manning’s last game. That was in February of 2016.
AJ Johnson, meanwhile, was over a year into fighting a legal battle that cut short his senior year with the Vols in 2014 and put his NFL career on hold. That issue became part of an overall lawsuit that women’s groups filed against the University of Tennessee the spring following Denver’s Super Bowl win, and it even brought back Peyton Manning’s incident with a trainer in 1996.